🗓 Sunday 15th August 2021
⌚️ 1400 – 2000
🎟 All events on Sunday 16th are free, only Geordie Jazz man requires a ticket [click]

Sunday 16th August

An afternoon of completely free music and events in the city centre. It’s part of our mission to bring jazz music to those who might not always happen across it, so we’re very pleased to add these four free events on Sunday 16th August.

We’ve carefully selected artists which cover some of the best music from last years festival, a newly formed group, and an ensemble put together specially for the occasion.

Each will play for an hour in three venues across the city, plus we’re over the moon to be screening Geordie Jazz Man at Tyneside Cinema with a directors talk from Abi Lewis.

⌚ 2-3pm
👉🏽 PETE TANTON & LLOYD WRIGHT
📍TBC
An exciting new pairing specially for NJF. Tanton and Wright are two luminaries of the North East jazz scene. This duo is bound to excite.

⌚ 4-5pm
👉🏽 ABBIE FINN TRIO
📍Billy Bootleggers
🔗abbiefinn.com
Recently formed trio lead by drummer Abbie Finn. playing a mix of straight-ahead jazz, plus a few originals.

⌚ 6-7pm
👉🏽 GEORDIE JAZZ MAN
📍 Tyneside Cinema
🔗 geordiejazzman.com
🎥 YouTube: GJM trailer
Film about Newcastle jazz legend  Keith Crombie, proprietor of the Pink Lane Jazz Cafe.

⌚ 7-8pm
👉🏽 EMMA FISK & JAMES BIRKETT
📍Tyneside Cinema
🔗 emmafisk.co.uk
🎥 YouTube: “Sunshine”
One of our most popular artists from the 2019 festival, playing the music of Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.